On-chain record · medium source confidence
US DOJ — 2016 Bitfinex Hack Proceeds Seizure
In August 2016 roughly 120,000 BTC was taken from the exchange Bitfinex. In February 2022 the US Department of Justice announced it had seized about 94,643 BTC of the stolen funds in connection with a money-laundering prosecution, describing it at the time as its largest financial seizure. The recovered coins were consolidated into a government-controlled address that has received across 183 outputs and never spent. A US court subsequently ordered the recovered property returned to Bitfinex.
- First seen
- February 2022
- Connected
- February 2022
- Route display ID
4°-EE56-0280Display identifier only — not proof of ownership.
2 additional population comparisons
Evidence boundary
What is — and is not — established
The DOJ press materials retrieved in this session state the amount and date but do not publish the custody addresses. Both addresses here come from third-party labelling services (Spark, BitInfoCharts) and are corroborated only by an on-chain match to the announced figure and date: 94,643.49 BTC funded on 1 February 2022, never spent. Treat this as attribution, not disclosure. The individuals convicted in the underlying case are not named on the entity page.
The dossier
Evidence record
Address record
- Role
- primary US government custody address for the February 2022 seizure; funded 1 Feb 2022, never spent
- Script
- P2WPKH
- Category
- Public custody
- Source confidence
- medium
- Catalog reviewed
- 2026-08-06
View all 2 documented addresses
- 01
bc1qazcm763858nkj2dj986etajv6wquslv8uxwczt - 02
bc1qkmk4v2xn29yge68fq6zh7gvfdqrvpq3v3p3y0s